Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor

Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor
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Description

New Dual-Core Itanium® 2-based servers provide new levels of flexibility, mainframe-class reliability, proven performance, and cost-effective scalability for your most data-intensive computing needs offering more reasons than ever to choose cost-effective Intel standards-based architecture over RISC-based and mainframe systems.The new Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 9000 series delivers double the performance of yesterday's processor¹, Intel® Cache Safe Technology and Enhanced Machine Check Architecture for increased availability and reliability, hardware-assisted Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, and 20 percent lower power consumption¹.

Features and Benefits

Dual-Core Processing and EPIC TechnologyThe Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 series provides two complete 64-bit processing cores on one processor providing double the performance of yesterday's processor. EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) technology is the cornerstone of the Intel Itanium architecture. It provides a variety of advanced implementations of parallelism, predication, and speculation, resulting in superior Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) to help address the current and future requirements of high-end enterprise and technical workloads.

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)The Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor includes hardware-assisted virtualization support that helps reduce virtualization complexity, improve virtualization performance, and increase operating system compatibility.

Intel® Cache Safe TechnologyThis new technology enables high-end systems to operate even in the event of errors in the L3 cache that can bring systems down. Intel Cache Safe Technology minimizes cache errors and helps ensure mainframe-caliber availability.

Outstanding Energy Efficiency¹The Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor uses up to 20 percent less power than yesterday's Intel Itanium 2 processor, enabling as much as 2.5 times higher performance per watt, lowering energy requirements while providing significant performance improvements.



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1 Performance measured using OLTP (NT/SQL), SPECjbb2005, SPECCPU, Linpack, and SAP-SD. Intel Internal Measurement (March, 2006) comparing system configurations of Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 1.6 GHz with 24 MB L3 cache to Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 1.6 GHz with 9 MB L3 cache. Actual performance may vary. See www.intel.com/performance/server/itanium2.Δ Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/index.htm for details.Download product brief for more information on Intel® Itanium® 2 processors.